Help With Homemade

[BlueSmudge]

Well, first of all, you arnt getting much power, since after only a few pumps, all the pressure will be getting out of the PC's because they are not cemented. You work in a hardware store, damnit you should be able to pull the fudgeing thing off. You could use those rubber wrenches or something. It shouldnent be that hard.
About all your threaded atachments. I personally never use tape. I always use pipe dope. It works way better. I take two wrenches and turn them oposite ways, and I can completely screw all the threads. with teflon tape, I can only get half way.

[Ben]

...which means that the seal is better because it's harder to get on. With enough strenth I've got mine down about 3/4 of the way. They don't even need to be on the entier way anyway.

Well, you'll have to cement it together. Get some plyers or someting and pull all the non-cemented parts out. Or put them in a clamp pull hard. Just get some tools to help you.

About the pump, that was expected from the dual pump. It probably is because it's not on completely straight. Hopefully you didn't cement that on. Just use a normal 1/2" pump, I know what I'm talking about.

[Winston Churchill]

This gun is getting more frustrating and less fun now. I'm sure that the only reason I'm staying with this is that I've spent a lot of money on it. I've improved on last night's 10 feet.

Well, you'll have to cement it together. Get some plyers or someting and pull all the non-cemented parts out. Or put them in a clamp pull hard. Just get some tools to help you.

I tried that before I even posted saying that I couldn't get it off. In fact I had TWO people pulling on the tools (that is a lot of force they can stay on if they are that strong). They wouldn't come off and thats how it is. -_- sigh. So I admitted defeat and cemented the outside for a seal. But I'm going to wait a full 24 hrs for these seals. I'm going to try some plumbers putty to close the gaps better than the cement sometime, but I'm not sure when because I'm afraid to spend a $1.39 more on this.
"The pump works great and its even easy to pump!"......thats what I'd be saying if it worked. :Hey, that's funny.: Actually, The seal and pump works TOTALLY fine until I reach the upper 20 foot range on my gun. Then it leaks through the seal and out the endcaps. But rest assured that I've got a few ideas on what I could do to make it work.
My gun is working fine if you want to shoot a few feet less than 30 with a 3/8s nozzle. The water blast is really spread out. I still have yet too make the stream more cohesive with lamination stuff. How much better does doing that help? All in all I expect this to work much better if I spend just a little more time and money on it. But there has to be a stopping line somewhere. And sadly, I think that line is getting kinda close.

[BlueSmudge]

The same thing happened to me on my homemade. It shot 2 feet with like 10X. Pathetic. Then I pulled off a unneeded piece, and it worked out ok. It was CPS, and I didn't put on enough layers, but it is at least as powerful as a 1200. Just 3 times bigger.
All you have to do is find your unneeded peice, and make it more practical.

[Winston Churchill]

Well, after I cemented the chambers on better I pulled out my trusty measuring tape. The total is now at around 41 feet without lamination. How much will lamination help range?

The O rings still leak. <_< I think I'll reduce the pump size (because the last few pumps are still hurting my elbow) when I fix the o-rings I'm just not sure what I'm going to do yet. With dual one inch pumps pumping, it will be nearly impossible to reach even higher pressures because it will be so hard to pump. Curse my mere mortality!

I'm thinking about adding balloons to where I screw my PCs on to add a cps like effect to it. To see if I can add even more range.

Finally, How long can others homemades shoot for? Mine lasts only for a short time. If I want more time won't I have to increase chamber size?

[Ben]

How much adding lamination helps depends. Both of mine appear to have fairly laminated streams. You can tell by how the stream looks, if it's not breaking apart then it's laminated. I got 55 feet on my 2 chamber version and the single one just is a few feet under that. I think that adding the straws might add 2-5 feet to the range because it only breaks up a lot near the end of the stream. If your stream is breaking up very soon then the straws could maybe help 10 or 15 feet.

The range being about 15 feet lower than mine likely is because you're not getting as much pressure in your current pump configuration. My pump is easier to pump, letting me get higher pressures because the last couple pumps are easier than your last few.

[Winston Churchill]

I agree. But it would be too hard to change it to a single So I'm going to leave it double and change the pump size. Thanks for all your help smudge, blaze, doom!